The Manager's Changing Work Environment & Ethical Responsibilities

1. Chapter Three The Manager’s Changing Work Environment & Ethical Responsibilities

2. Major Questions You Should Be Able to Answer 3.1 Who are the stakeholders important to me inside the organization? 3.2 Who are the stakeholders important o me outside the organization? 3.3 What does the successful manager need to know about ethics and values? 3.4 Is being socially responsible really necessary 3.5 What trends in workplace diversity should managers be aware of?

3. The Community of Stakeholders Inside the Organization • Stakeholders • the people whose interests are affected by an organization’s activities • Internal, external

4. The Organization’s Environment Figure 3.1

5. The Community of Stakeholders Inside the Organization • Internal stakeholders • consist of employees, owners, and the board of directors

6. The Community of Stakeholders Inside the Organization • Owners • consist of all those who can claim the organization as their legal property • Board of directors • members elected by the stockholders to see that the company is being run according o their interests

7. The Community of Stakeholders Inside the Organization • External stakeholders • people or groups in the organization’s external environment that are affected by it

8. The Task Environment • Customers • those who pay to use an organization’s goods or services • Competitors • people or organizations that compete for customers or services

9. The Task Environment • Suppliers • A person or organization that provides raw materials, services, equipment, labor or energy to other organizations

10. Example: Amazon.com and the Customer Experience • Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com is obsessed with customer service • Believes that company’s success is driven by the customer experience

11. The Task Environment (cont.) • Distributor • a person or organization that helps another organization sell its goods and services to customers • Strategic allies • describes the relationship of two organizations who join forces to achieve advantages neither can perform as well alone

12. The Task Environment (cont.) • Government regulators • regulatory agencies that establish ground rules under which organizations may operate • Special interest groups • groups whose members try to influence specific issues

13. The Task Environment (cont.) • Employee Organizations: Unions & Associations • Local Communities • Financial Institutions • Mass Media

14. The General Environment • Economic forces • consist of the general economic conditions and trends – unemployment, inflation, interest rates, economic growth – that may affect an organization’s performance • Technological forces • new developments in methods for transforming resources into goods and services

15. The General Environment • Sociocultural forces • Influences and trends originating in a country’s, a society’s, or a culture’s human relationships and values that may affect an organization • Demographic forces • influences on an organization arising from changes in the characteristics of a population, such as age, gender, or ethnic origin

16. The General Environment • Political-Legal forces • forces changes in the way politics shape laws and laws shape the opportunities for and threats to an organization • International forces • changes in the economic, political, legal, and technological global system that may affect an organization

17. Example: Automakers’ Impact on Indiana and Arkansas Towns • Anderson, IN has no more GM manufacturing plants • The population has dropped from 70,000 to 58,000 • Town is still dependent on GM retirees and their pension income

18. The Ethical Responsibilities Required of You as a Manager • Ethical dilemma • situation in which you have to decide whether to pursue a course of action that may benefit you or your organization but that is unethical or even illegal

19. The Ethical Responsibilities Required of You as a Manager • Ethics • standards of right and wrong that influence behavior • Values • relatively permanent and deeply held underlying beliefs and attitudes that help determine a person’s behavior

20. The Ethical Responsibilities Required of You as a Manager Organizations may have two value systems that conflict: • The value system stressing financial performance versus • the value system stressing cohesion and solidarity in employee relationships

21. Four Approaches to Deciding Ethical Dilemmas • Utilitarian • guided by what will result in the greatest good for the greatest number of people • Individual • guide by what will result in the individual’s best long term interest, which ultimately are in everyone’s self-interest

22. Four Approaches to Deciding Ethical Dilemmas (cont.) • Moral-rights • guided by respect for the fundamental rights of human beings • Justice • guided by respect for impartial standards of fairness and equity

23. The Ethical Responsibilities Required of You as a Manager • Sarbanes-Oxley of 2002 • establishes requirements for proper financial record keeping for public companies and penalties for noncompliance

24. Three Levels of Moral Development • Level 1, preconventional – follows rules • Level 2, conventional – follows expectations of others • Level 3, postconventional – guided by internal values

25. How Managers Can Promote Ethics • Support by top managers of a strong ethical climate • Ethics codes and training programs • Rewarding ethical behavior: protecting whistleblowers

26. The Social Responsibilities Required of You as a Manager • Social responsibility • manager’s duty to take actions that will benefit the interests of society as well as of the organization • Corporate social responsibility • notion that corporations are expected to go above and beyond following the law and making a profit

27. The Social Responsibilities Required of You as a Manager • Blended value • notion that all investments are understood to operate simultaneously in both economic and social realms

28. Two Types of Social Responsibility • Sustainability • economic development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs • Philanthropy • making charitable donations to benefit humankind

29. The Diversity Wheel Figure 3.2

30. The New Diversified Workplace • Diversity • represents all the ways people are unlike and alike – the differences and similarities in age, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, capabilities, and socioeconomic background

31. The New Diversified Workplace • Personality • stable physical and mental characteristics responsible for a person’s identity • Internal dimensions of diversity • human differences that exert a powerful, sustained effect throughout every stage of our lives

32. The New Diversified Workplace • External dimensions of diversity • consist of the personal characteristics that people acquire, discard, or modify throughout their lives include an element of choice • Organizational dimensions • include management status, union affiliation, work location, seniority, work content, and division

33. Trends in Workforce Diversity • More older people in the workforce • More women working • More people of color in the workforce • Gays & lesbians become more visible • People with differing physical and mental abilities • Mismatches between education and workforce needs

34. The New Diversified Workplace • Ethnocentrism • belief that one’s native country, culture, language, abilities, or behavior is superior to those of another culture

35. Barriers to Diversity • Stereotypes and prejudices • Fear of reverse discrimination • Resistance to diversity program priorities • Unsupportive social atmospheres • Lack of support for family demands • Lack of support for career-building steps